Quotes About Influence

I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?' I'd say, 'Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.'

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

I can't control anything that happens after the creative process because after that it's not yours anymore, it's everyone else's.

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.

One thing I was told early in my career is when you walk out on the field, the name on the back of your jersey is not yours - it's your dad's. I've carried that with me forever as something - I've worked harder and learned more about my father since he passed than when he was alive, because when he was alive, I was young, and I knew everything.

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don't feel like you have it in you, it's in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.